Anti-Obama Campaign Targets Gay Marriage Endorsement

A group of African-American religious
leaders are calling on black voters to turn their backs on President
Barack Obama over his endorsement of gay marriage.

Obama announced his support in May.

The group God Said has pledged $1
million for an ad campaign opposing the president's stance and calling
on black voters to vote against politicians who support marriage
equality.

“The black community is among the
most religious in America,” Apostle Claver Kamau-Imani, the group's
founder, said in a statement. “We are offended that President
Obama has announced his support of same-sex marriage, that the NAACP
has blindly supported the secular views of the Democratic Party and
that their national platform plainly supports same-sex marriage. I
am confident this message will be well received and acted upon on
Election Day.”

The executive board of God Said
includes former Miss America contestant Day Gardner and Alveda King,
the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King.

“During the 2008 elections, 70
percent of African-Americans voted to ban same-sex marriage in
California while they also voted for Barack Obama for president,”
King told The
Daily Caller. “We fully intend to shift 25 percent of the
black vote from the 2008 election by charging every voter to examine
each candidate and vote for the one that supports their core belief
in natural marriage.”